19 Quotes by Park Dietz

Do not attempt any of the autoerotic activities described or depicted in this monograph. There is no reason to believe that these activities are pleasurable to the average person, and there is every reason to believe that they may prove fatal.

I don't think she was thinking about state law when she was doing this, and struggling to carry out God's will.

as most episodes of other crime dramas aired for the last 20 years.

For her this is a conflict of what she desired and what God wills, and she struggled over whether to obey God and her desire to keep her children.

I think people are inherently self-aggrandizing, pleasureseeking, unempathetic, self-serving, greedy and lustful.

With rare exceptions, people are responsible for what they do.

I do think a lot of sexual violence stems from experiences in childhood or at puberty. Some people become sadistic after suffering early abuse at the hands of parents, relatives or friends. But for others, the seed is planted in the formative years by the conflation of images of violence with those of sexual arousal. Magazines, TV shows and, especially, slasher movies are masters at doing this.

You condition a vulnerable boy at puberty to become aroused by brutality. It's the violence, not the nudity. Frankly, I wouldn't mind if every teenage boy had a subscription to Playboy. They'd be looking at attractive naked female bodies while they masturbated, not eviscerated female bodies.

One of the problems with studies that examine the effects of violent imagery is that they typically use mentally healthy psychology students. If you want to do a meaningful study, show movies like Body Double and Copycat to a group of sexual psychopaths the day before you release them.